Music or videos purchased from iTunes store are often DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected, which prevents you from playing iTunes media files on other media players besides Apple products. If you want to play the music and video on smartphones adopting the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system like Nokia Lumia 920/Nokia Lumia 720/Nokia Lumia 520/HTC Windows Phone 8S/Huawei Ascend W1/Samsung Ativ Odyssey/Samsung Ativ S etc., you’ll be unable to transfer the files directly to without third-party software.

To play iTunes DRM protected music and video on a Windows Phone 8, you need to remove iTunes DRM first. You can use a DRM removal software to do that. Here we highly recommend Firstarsoft DRM removal and converter tool, a dynamic DRM remover and video converter that can easily remove DRM and convert iTunes to Windows Phone 8 supported formats. In addition, it supports conversion between various video and audio formats, such as AVI, WMV, MOV, MKV, MP4, M4V, FLV, MPEG, MOPG, ASF, FLV, MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, AIFF, etc.

Just download and install the Firstarsoft DRM remover and converter instantly and follow the below steps to transfer DRM protected music and videos from iTunes to Windows Phone 8.

After you download and install Firstarsoft DRM Removal and Converter, launch the program and click “Add…” to load files from your computer. You can also drag and drop files to the interface to add. If you want to add all the DRM protected files on your computer, you can right click “Add…” and choose “Find DRM” to load all the DRM protected media files in batch.

Step 2: Choose output settings

Now choose the output format and output path. You can choose WMV, MOV or MP4 as the output video format or WAV, MP3, WMA as the output format. As has been mentioned above, these formats are highly compatible with Windows Phone 8. You also need to choose the output folder to save the converter files.

When all the settings are OK. You can click “Start” button to start iTunes to Windows Phone 8 conversion. When the conversion completes, you can get transfer the converted DRM free files to your Windows Phone 8 using Microsoft Zune software. This way, you have synced iTunes to Windows Phone 8. Now you can play them on your phone without any restrictions!